Thomas Wei Huang previously couldn’t be named due to his age (Picture: PA/Devon Live)

Public schoolboy who tried to kill classmates and teacher with hammers named

by · Metro

A public schoolboy who tried to murder two fellow students as they slept before turning on a teacher has been named for the first time.

Thomas Wei Huang, now 17, armed himself with three claw hammers and waited to ambush the boys at Blundell’s School in Tiverton, Devon, in June last year.

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